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Prison Trilogy (Billy Rose) Lyrics

Artist: Joan Baez
Album: In Concert 2

Billy Rose was a low rider, Billy Rose was a night fighterBilly knew trouble like the sound of his own nameBusted on a drunken charge driving someone else's carThe local midnight sheriffs claim to fame

In an Arizona jail there are some who tell the tale howBilly fought the sergeant for some milk that he demandedKnowing they'd remain the boss, knowing he would pay the costThey saw he was severely repremanded

In the blackest cell on "A" BlockHe hanged himself at dawnWith a note stuck to the bunk headDon't mess with me, just take me home

Come lay, help us layYoung Billy down

Luna was a Mexican the law called an alienFor coming across the border with a baby and a wifeThough the clothes upon his back were wet still he thoughtThat he could get some money and things to start a life

It hadn't been to very long when it seemed like everything went wrongThey didn't even have the time to find themselves a homeThis foreigner, a brown-skin male thrown into a Texas jailIt left the wife and baby quite alone

He eased the pain inside himWith a needle in his armBut the dope just crucified himHe died to no one's great alarm

Come lay, help us lay young Luna downWere gonna raze, raze the prisons to the ground

Kilowatt was an aging con of 65 who stood a chance to stay aliveAnd leave the joint and walk the streets againAs the time he was to leave drew near he suffered all the joy and fearOf leaving 35 years in the pen

And on the day of his release he was approached by the policeWho took him to te warden walking slowly by his sideThe warden said "You won't remain here but it seems a state retainerclaims another 10 years of your life"

He stepped out in the Texas sunlightThe cops all stood aroundOld Kilowatt ran 50 yardsThen threw himself on the ground

They may as well just laid the old man downAnd we're gonna raze, raze the prisons to the groundHelp us raze the prisons to the ground